A – [Slight pause] “Probably crashed! But, now I’m trying to think which one…”
Y – “Actually, I have one for both of us. When we drove in the Fiesta Cup, we were both out for qualifying …”
[Ayrton, who’s clearly just realized which race Yannick is referring to, starts laughing…]
Y – “…and, in the Fiesta, it’s really hard to warm up your rear tyres because all the traction is at the front. So, we were both warming up our tyres, very aggressively, and we spun off the track, at the same corner, with 100 metres between us! We made the same mistake, on the same lap, at the same corner!” [Both laugh]
A – “They threw the red flag, at that corner for both of us. I managed to escape, but he was stuck. There’s footage of it, if you want to see it…?” It’s the easiest question CREVENTIC has ever been asked during a Head-to-Head interview, and Ayrton is soon looking through his phone for the incriminating footage.
Y – “Our girlfriends were both in the grandstand at that time, also at that corner! So, first, they see him going off, and then me!”
A – “First one, it was like, ‘who is it?! Oh, doesn’t matter, the other one is there as well!’ But this thing is, we were trying to slipstream, so when I lost it, he just reacted to avoid me, and lost it as well! But there was no contact.”
